Category: Heat embossing

Guest Designing at IBS

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Hi friends,

This is Sathya from Paperie Expressions. Am excited to share my Guest Design project for the month of June at IBS. If you have missed my earlier post using two Fabulous floral stamps, you can check here . 

For today, i have come up with a mixed media project, using Gorgeous Butterflies Stampset.

Let’s get started!

  • Took 5″x7″ canvas and gessoed it with Clear Gesso.
  • Added Wendy Veichchi Embossing paste (Translucent) on the diagonal corners of the canvas and with that added cheesecloth.
  • Few strings are randomly to create further textures.
  • The canvas is misted with Lindy’s gang sprays.
  • The butterflies are stamped using Black Archival ink and colored using Gelatos. Highlights are added using Fabercastell Polychromos pencils.
                 

  • Then colored butterflies are fussy cut, Ranger’s UTEE clear Heat embossed.
  • The canvas is randomly stamped using script stamp from Forever friends stampset and black archival ink.
  • Same stamp is stamped onto a chipboard and added as a focal interest.
  • To that added a vellum strip of sentiment from the Butterflies stampset.
  • Few Prima mini art stones and some gold glitter dots are added randomly for interest.
  • Finally butterflies are added using Hot glue gun.

Hope you liked today’s project.
Supply used:

Butterflies Stampset

All Chalked up!!

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Hi Friends,

Made few chalkboard projects for Mudra few weeks before, thought to share here.


Chalked Bookmarks , Chalked Notecards, Chalked Gift Tags :

Chalked Bookmarks:

  • Took black cs in 2.25″x6″ and white heat embossed sentiments from Bookmarks stampset and Hot air ballon from Beachfun Stampset.
  • Then using tissue, buffed white pigment ink over the embossed and surrounding areas to give a chalkboard effect.
  • Bordered the panel with white colored pencil.
  • Went ahead and matted this over a white cs.
  • Then laminated this bookmark and added a black satin ribbon as final touch.
Chalked Notecards:

  • These are 3.5×3.75″ notecards which i attempted to do Table art, by showcasing these on mini easels for a daily Inspirational kick at workspace 🙂
  • I took sentiments from Farewell, Dare to fly stampsets and white heat embossed it along with feathers from Dreamcatcher and chevron washi from Washis stampset.
  • Buffed white pigment ink over the embossed areas.
  • Highlighted panel by white colored pencil scorings.
  • Matted with White cardstock.
  • Laminated the panels to make sturdy.
Chalked Gift Tags:

  • Was hoarding these thick colored cardboard hearts for a long time now.
  • Went ahead and black gessoed it heavily.
  • White heat embossed the sentiments from Mixed Greetings stampset.
  • To add little extra detailing, stamped flourishes from Vintagey Florishes stampset around the sentiments.
  • Added natural linen ribbon and a teeny tiny ivory Raffia bow as final touch.
Hope you like these inspirations using Chalkboard technique.

Happy Tamil New year!

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       “உலக  தமிழர் அனைவருக்கும் இனிய தமிழ் புத்தாண்டு நல்வாழ்த்துகள்”


Hearty Tamil New year Wishes to all Tamilians across the Globe!!
Made a quick card using Mudra stamps with Tamil font to wish my closest pals, who are celebrating their 1st Tamil New year after their wedding. 

  • Wildhoney and Mustard seed is sponged on the bg and embossed using WRMK weaves bg.
  • The lamps are gold heat embosses, colored using Zig and fussy cut.
  • The sentiment is centrally gold heat embossed on a vellum focal panel to which fussy cut lamps are added.
  • The vellum piece mounted on to the embossed panel and then mounted to the A2 sized gold cardbase
  • Just 2 pieces of peach rhinestones on the lamps added to finish off the card.
Hope you like it!

Beautiful: A floral card

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Hi Friends!!!

Wishing all women out there, a Happy Women’s Day!!!

“Find the stuff that makes your Soul sing…And be your own Kind of Unique Beautiful Self”

I have been practicing coloring in different medium and my Fabercastell polychromos is my birthday gift last year, which is my recent crush.

Made a simple online coloring card using these colored pencils.


  • Stamped those lilies from Clearly besotted in a light ink.
  • Colored these using fabercastell polychromos.
  • Fussy cut and Mounted on a embossed black cardstock for little texture.
  • The sentiment diecut is colored using Versamagic ink and clear embossed to give a bold effect agains the bg.
  • Few enamel dots to match the flowers. 
Hope you like this!!

Smile Mixed Media Canvas

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Hi Friends,

Today my dear little one, is turning 8 🙂

Happy Birthday Adithya 🙂

I made a mixed media canvas to preserve a captured memory..which we took recently. This pic is so special to me as its a timely click and his Awesome smiles.

  • Took 5×7 canvas and white gessoed it.
  • Applied blue shades of Gelatos over the surface and watered down heavily and with tissues took off few to give textured appearance.
  • Applied Lightpaste using TCW tile stencil.
  • Few torn pieces of Papericious pps are layered with burlap and doily for the focal image.
  • Then clustered flowers and leaves with green embossed mdf florishes are added.
  • White and black gesso splatters.
  • Kaisercraft butterflies are stamped on vellum and fussy cut and added to it.
  • Prima Smile resin icon is added to the canvas.
  • TH chitchat stickers are matted with kraft cs and added to the canvas.
  • Heart wood veneers for the final touches.
Hope you like the canvas.

Layered Love card

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Hi Friends!

Today have come with a Layered Love card, made this having few ongoing challenges in mind.

This card made especially using Papericious brand products from India.

I absolutely love My Golden Garden PP stack and was waiting to lay my hands on it. Very Recently my parents sent loads of craft supplies from India, sourcing from various craft stores in India, it was my birthday gifts reached me just few weeks back 🙂

  • Layered the pps from the My golden garden set.
  • Distressed the edges using scissors and stacked on to the 6″ top fold square card.
  • Paper pieced the florals from the same set -Embeliishment kit, matted surrounding a heart diecut, which was made using Brusho – Carmine color, then clear embossed it to make it a pretty focal piece.
  • Few colored, clear heat embossed heart wood veneers, Textured sequins from Papericious, few clear droplets are added for extra touch.
  • The focal sentiment element is a from Papericious Collage sheet.
  • All put together made this beautiful card.

Hope you like it!
Linking to following challenges

Papericious – Expression of love

Paru’s cardmaking challenges